To the Editor:
This morning I watched as the school bus pulled to a fast stop at the bottom of my driveway and waited for my daughter to climb on board, a familiar scene at this the end of her seventh grade year. But then the bus did not hurry on its way. Instead, in her great responsibility, the driver emerged from her vessel, walked its perimeter and returned to her seat of authority behind the wheel. Via cell phone, I learned from my daughter that due to a problem with the bus there was a replacement on the way. Within only twenty minutes time, the second bus pulled alongside and slightly ahead of the first. A dozen or so tall and sleepy students filed down the steps into the chilly May air, proceeded around the front of the first bus and nonchalantly up the steps of their new ride to school. As with every good captain, the driver was the last to leave her ship. She boarded the waiting, more dependable vehicle and off they went, on to yet another school day.
I just want to say a big THANKS! to our school bus drivers and all who are diligently hard at work making sure our kids arrive to and from school safe and sound all year. Each school day, I send my three children forth to board your buses trusting that they will be kept safe. And each afternoon you bring them securely back to my waiting arms. This is no small matter and it doesn’t go unappreciated! “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me” (Mt 25:40 NIV)
Emily J. Ulman
Carrollton, OH
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